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ABOUT My name is Chou, Hung-Ming and I graduated from Tamkang University with a BA degree in Architecture. I am Taiwanese and was born in Taipei City. I have a great deal of passion towards architecture and enjoy analyzing things from architecture perspectives. I must say, architecture has been part of my life for as long as could remember. During my freshman year as an undergraduate, I knew nothing about architecture. I ran around blacksmith and carpentry tools trying to search for the meaning of design. Soon after a year of professional training in school, I started build a basic understanding of what design is to me. Not long after I started my architecture pathway by becoming familiar with more architectural materials, design details and even urban planning. After five years of education, I only grew more enthusiastic and eager for advanced knowledge in the industry of architecture. I now feel the urge to grasp more practical skills to apply in the real life settings. My motivation is to give back to myself for all the devotion, but also to fulfill my long-term faith. 2
2008 time line
2009
Family
Intersection
Tenant
page5~7
Porject: Housing together
After knowing my potential in architecture, this case has made me realize how to make design more interesting. The “ISSUE� is what makes the case more attractive and intriguing. This case has made me understand how the choice of words can be symbolized to indicate different meanings, such as space, strategy, design methods and even details of the design.
project primary school
project activity center time line
2010
2011
page8~10
Porject: The Library
A 2D design can ensure an interesting outcome. However, in this case, we look at the section as the main shaft, and through the large quantity of section sketches to construct the buildings. Furthermore, thoughts and ideas are combined with story lines to enlighten the interior space and to reach a more interesting and effective design.
2012
page11~13
Porject: Stay with Flourshing
Spatial design in a building should be the main character. However, when the building is placed in a certain degree of context, a good design should not render its originality. Regardless commercial activities, residential areas or performing arenas are the essential elements that could be brought to this case.
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Porject: Performance Maywa Denki
This is a hypo-architectural design in Japan, which uses an Internet networking strategy to search for a performing group. The performing site is purposely designed, but randomly picked in Asia. The extension of the site enables the designer to fully elaborate on spatial design. However, the challenge comes from the integration of relationships among all the spaces, which is also my biggest gain in this case. 3
2012
2013
page19~23
Porject: Hot spring Town
This is a hypo-architectural design in Spain. This challenge is out of my reach at the early stage due to the scales, data collection, integration of Green Energy Technology and the actual function of town. Conquering this case has benefited me from advancing my knowledge to the next level. The breakthrough of cultural and geological difficulties has broadened my viewpoints in architecture design. The process was not smooth, but the gain was precious. 4
2014
page24~35 Farmer-Post Station
Porject: Farmer-Post Station
point1:a new space design for old street point2:new farmer with original traditional circumstances
This is the last case in my senior college and I chose a market that is only five kilometers away from my home in Taipei City. I tried to utilize all my architectural techniques on this case: The farmer Transfer Station. I faced many obstacles, but it became clear to me that I needed to obtain more knowledge and skills in the field of architecture in order to make it functional. This is truly what I hope to cultivate.
Porject: workshop
This was an extracurricular activity in my undergraduate years. I participated in a workshop in Japan, which includes leading universities such as National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), Tokyo Woman’s Christian University (Japan), and Nanjing University (China). Although I participated in countless workshops, there were two where I held important roles, such as curator, negotiator and decision maker.
Housing Together 2009-10.winter
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The Script
This community is composed of four types of spaces, four units held by a family and the other four units are left for sale.
Mix Together
Unit A: An old couple has a dog. Their elder son and daughterin-law are seldom home due to their constant business trips. Their room is preserved for them even though they only come home once every six months. The young couple has two children who are still in elementary school, so they hired a maid to take care of the elders and the children. Unit A: This family has a husband and wife, mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and the mother of the daughter-in-law. The second son and third son only come home during the weekends for they normally stay in the baseball dormitory. The children are college students in Taichung City. Due to their heavy course loads, they only come home once a month. Therefore, the main members in this household are the mother-in-law and daughterin-law. The daughter-in-law works during the daytime and she always gets home late, as there is no direct transportation home. For instance, the daughter-in-law brings dinner on the way home and she seldom cooks at home. She only cooks when her husband and son get home. Unit B: There are a couple and two children, who are the elder couple’s youngest son and daughter-in-law. The young couples are all working during the day from nine to five. The younger daughter-in-law is Christian and she brings her two children to church every Sunday. Sometimes she even brings her neighbor’s children with her. The younger son likes to play basketball and he always plays at the park except for the weekends. During weeknights, he sometimes brings his wife and children to take a walk in the park. The rest of the four units will be sold and these only come with standard equipment.
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Issue
In the countryside, the three-section courtyard remains as a closed-system, but the interaction of people is still friendly and warm. However, people nowadays live in apartments that are detached and everybody lives closely to each other.
Final Model At the last stage of model making, I tried to place the building onto the site model so the building itself can be blended into the old community. As a result, the fragmentation of the faรงade is necessary to soften the exterior of the building. Moreover, windows are designed to bring light into the apartment.
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The Library 2010.summer
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Drawing Concept Section
Section About Activity
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Draw Planning Modelling Design
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Stay with Flourshing 2010-11.winter
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Taipei city About taipei city
Taipei is a narrow and small city. To illustrate the sequence of history, Taipei has developed rapidly and become the capital city of Taiwan. Regardless of politics, economics, culture and related issues, Taipei City has always been the core, which gradually extended its development outward. Consequently, buildings stand in great numbers; cars, motorbikes and even highways have filled in the whole city. Due to the development of convenient transportation, tourism is now prosperous in the city area. The busy city becomes suffocated during the daytime. In comparison, on the weekends or at night, the commercial district attracts more people. The unique business activities, purchasing behavior and the intermixture of residential and commercial streets have made Taipei City a different place. Nevertheless, in order to create a remodeled space under such an atmosphere, I allowed the buildings to blend in and enjoy the charisma of the nightlife in Taipei City. 12
Local Business Model
Local Regional lifestyle and purchasing behavior at the nearby businesses are not a single case. The arcades bring business to this area. With the increase of crowds, the vendors are pushed onto the street to do business. Within only eight meters of the street, transportation, shoppers, and vendor businesses are all crowded and function together. In addition, long lines form at the well-known businesses, pushing people onto the street with cars and scooters squeezing through tight spaces. As a result, the pathway for the lines is altered accordingly all the time, just to co-exist with the transportation passing through. Prosperity is the distinguishing feature here, but every business is connected through residence. It feels like stepping into another world with just one turn. 13
JAPAN Performance Group
Osaka
Performance Maywa Denki 明和電機 2012-13.winter
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Spacs & Program management strategy invent instrument production performance manufactures
Program factory theater lobby media-center prepare room stage back stage restaurant store learning room toilet ticket outdoor stage buffer space lounge entrance plazza
activity with staff
ramp
staff only
view place
shop rental
buffer space
underground space
buffer space
besic function
instruction circulation 15
Render
Model
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Performance Group Maywa Denki
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ECO TOWN HOT SPRING 2013.summer
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spend time 3/4
concept
3/17
consensus compromise
site analysis
someone lose more someone obtain more
Technology access foundation
3/14
case study
3/17
5.seprate the store
water and life museum
a. Bar b. Grocery store c. Fix store d. Agricultural implements store
store
housing store
More chance to meet other neighbor store
6.program a. Bar b. Church c. resturaunt
case study
Creative
Famous Bodegas
miton academy science building
Process
A normal day's breakfast- or desayuno- typically consists merely of a cup of coffee, although it's also commonplace to accompany your steaming cafĂŠ con leche with a croissant or other pastry. While an American traditional breakfast has pancakes, bacon, and eggs, the Spanish "traditional" breakfast consists of the vastly popular churros, served sprinkled with sugar or dunked in hot chocolate. Spaniards eat their lunch, or comida, between 2:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon. Serving as the day's main meal, it is traditionally quite a bit larger than the dinner meal, or cena. A typical lunch will have several courses. The first course is the lighter part of the meal, usually consisting of a salad or soup, while the second course is normally your typical fish or meat dish. A dessert can be a simple piece of fruit, a typical Spanish flan, or a sweet pastry or cake. While there are of course many people who eat full meals, the Spanish dinner (cena) is traditionally much smaller than the midday comida. It often consisting of something lighter like a salad, a sandwich, or a selection of tapas. Spaniards eat late for this final meal of the day- even more so on weekends and during the summer- sitting down to eat anytime from 9:00 until 11:00 in the evening.
Roman Catholicism is the largest denomination of Christianity present in Spain by far. According to an February 2013 study by the Spanish Center of Sociological Research about 70.5% of Spaniards self-identify as Catholics
Church + Hospital
The way to save electricity
Issue!! small town everybody have same consensus
item TV computer air condition washing machine heater dehumidifiers refrigerator bulb
electricity
ecological
system
petroleum gas
air condition heater
water
w/hr 140 370 900 420 700 285 130 60
everyday predict hour 4 5 5 1 3 3 24 10
People are not participate in the system. And people only enjoy the system which is we made. There is no perfect system so far.
The way to reduce pollution
garbage recycle save energy
everyday every person make about 1.15kg garbage in the city ,so there is more less in the contryside. 200people everyday make 230kg. 40% could be recovery 30% kitchen waste 25% other......wood rock ceramics a garbage car could carry 1500kg
refrigerator
the best solve is one week for clean garbage, but its impossible, so we have to find some where to put garbage.
1.we can wait and do nothing untill our technology is improve 2. maybe we can do something without high technology
ECO
asphalt concrete building human iron chemistry
&
store
system technology
living creature
ecological
animal plant microorganism
relationship
environment
soil rock water humidity air temperature
tropical forest desert south pole
site
Balance !!
3/14
bank of america tower
c a s e s t u d y
3/17
Green power system
3/17 How to make consensus??
We create different kind of system to save or make energy
1.Break the class
Do not let rich people or poor people together
sidwell friend school
consensus compromise
case study
2.Plan: Center
someone lose more someone obtain more
Manufacturing polysilicon, requires a lot of coal, the production of solar panels in a 1m Ă— 1.5m, it is necessary to burn more than 40 kg of coal and 20 years, the average life span of a solar panel. 40 kg of coal, enough to no effect in coal-fired power plants produce 130 kWh electricity. These power allows 2.2 watt light emitting transistor (LED) bulbs, lit 12 hours a day for up to 30 years
plaza housing
5.seprate the store
case study 3/17
a. Bar b. Grocery store c. Fix store d. Agricultural implements store
Renewable energy 14.5% wind power in spain Rank: 2 in Europe 4th in the world
store
housing store
More chance to meet other neighbor store
6.program a. Bar b. Church c. resturaunt
case study pittsburgh glass center
markplace
consensus 20
spend time
Famous Bodegas
store
A normal day's breakfast- or desayuno- typically consists merely of a cup of coffee, although it's also commonplace to accompany your steaming cafĂŠ con leche with a croissant or other pastry. While an American traditional breakfast has pancakes, bacon, and eggs, the Spanish "traditional" breakfast consists of the vastly popular churros, served sprinkled with sugar or dunked in hot chocolate. Spaniards eat their lunch, or comida, between 2:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon. Serving as the day's main meal, it is traditionally quite a bit larger than the dinner meal, or cena. A typical lunch will have several courses. The first course is the lighter part of the meal, usually consisting of a salad or soup, while the second course is normally your typical fish or meat dish. A dessert can be a simple piece of fruit, a typical Spanish flan, or a sweet pastry or cake. While there are of course many people who eat full meals, the Spanish dinner (cena) is traditionally much smaller than the midday comida. It often consisting of something lighter like a salad, a sandwich, or a selection of tapas. Spaniards eat late for this final meal of the day- even more so on weekends and during the summer- sitting down to eat anytime from 9:00 until 11:00 in the evening.
Roman Catholicism is the largest denomination of Christianity present in Spain by far. According to an February 2013 study by the Spanish Center of Sociological Research about 70.5% of Spaniards self-identify as Catholics
Church + Hospital
3/17
pamplona
process footprint
design energy source
3/17
4/22
CARBON FOOT PRINT
Green power system
Development of city
pamplona
Tourism
site
Car manufacturing and Machinery and equipment
Green Energy
We create different kind of system to save or make energy
Town
expensive
Pollution Assemble Batteries and electric motors are composed of minerals like nickel, copper and aluminum, which are toxic.
3/20 Navarre
Manufacturing polysilicon, requires a lot of coal, the production of solar panels in a 1m × 1.5m, it is necessary to burn more than 40 kg of coal and 20 years, the average life span of a solar panel.
pamplona
50Km 40mins
site
pamplona The population is rapidly growing from two hundred thousand.
Development of city
40 kg of coal, enough to no effect in coal-fired power plants produce 130 kWh electricity. These power allows 2.2 watt light emitting transistor (LED) bulbs, lit 12 hours a day for up to 30 years
2100~2500 kcal 2800~3100 kcal
Car Motobike Bus Airplane Train Vessel
cheap
157 57 39 1260 41 207
CO2 1950 g CO2 7850 g
Housing
g/km
Factory
factory 2 times
More and more of the population and factory.
50 years
Land to be developed
Future
Public space
FOOD MILES
Before World War II, one calorie of fossil fuel to produce 2.3 calories of food, and now, 10 calories of fossil fuel to produce one calorie of supermarket food only.
USER Old people and Children
2200~2700 Kcal
Renewable energy 14.5% wind power in spain Rank: 2 in Europe 4th in the world
Carbon dioxide
Pollution Contrary to popular belief, the process of manufacturing solar panels can and does create enormous amounts of harmful and toxic waste. Because the most of the solar panels consumed in the west are manufactured in China, the nature and extent of this pollution is hidden from the consumers of solar panels. We get the illusion of 'green, clean energy' on our shores, by exporting environmental ruin to the countries where the panels are manufactured. Polysilicon manufacturing yields the byproduct silicon tetrachloride, a highly dangerous and toxic chemical.
Catch fish
Every week
Process cheaper labor Sell in market
young couple working in the city.
Car manufacturing and Machinery and equipment
Old couple and children are living in the outside of city. vegetables
Save more carbon
grow up city
countryside
Housing + market
Green Energy
Tourism
young couple
barley cereal Fish
retire
pamplona The population is rapidly growing from two hundred thousand.
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3.Find out the enemy or targry
4/18
3/17
a. Plant the perfect cereal (something they can proud of the town) b. Fight to Electricity charge c. Fight cool temperature d. make town’s live function more complete
too focus on concept
pamplona
50Km
Electricity charge in spain ranked third in europe.
Yesa
40mins
Barley 10~20 C is good to make bear.
4.Festival
a. San Pamplona 奔牛節 b. Las Fallas 火節 c. Feria de Abril 四月春會
no relationship between site and concept
Bumper harvest
4/22
4/22 farmland
solar panel
collect water
solar
rain water
living room
energy source system didn’t integrate in unite bathroom
badroom
solar panel
heat pump
B
A
pipe
4/11
grey water kitchen
electricity heat pump
B’
absorb water heat
C
privicy space
buffer space
privicy buffer space space
heat line
sell place
heat pump
3/25
plant
4/11
AA’
solar panel
cold air
heat colder
absorb water
change air
collect water
A’
whashing place
badroom
cc’
unite
4/22
young couple working in the city.
Housing + market
BB’
Old couple and children are living in the outside of city. vegetables barley meat fish cereal
solar panel
B fish cereal dry in the sun
sun
cold wind
kitchen
reading place
living room
solar panel
stuff
plant
C
bathroom
1:100 front door
waterproof paper
B
B’
ground floor
second floor
wooden
third floor
slope
A
collect water
SYSTEM Development of city
A. Sell
C. Process
B. Dry
Double wall
B. save
Tourism
Dry something in the sun
Cold wind
site
Green Energy
storage
pamplona The population is rapidly growing from two hundred thousand.
2100~2500 kcal 2800~3100 kcal 2200~2700 Kcal
Car Motobike Bus Airplane Train Vessel
cheap
157 57 39 1260 41 207
activity
2 times
USER Old people and Children
activity
CO2 1950 g CO2 7850 g g/km
factory
More and more of the population and factory.
50 years Future
FOOD MILES
Before World War II, one calorie of fossil fuel to produce 2.3 calories of food, and now, 10 calories of fossil fuel to produce one calorie of supermarket food only.
4/22
B Plan: Center
housing public space
Catch fish
Every week
Process cheaper labor Sell in market
young couple working in the city.
Old couple and children are living in the outside of city. vegetables
Save more carbon
barley cereal Fish
storage
activity possiable happen
Carbon dioxide
Pollution Contrary to popular belief, the process of manufacturing solar panels can and does create enormous amounts of harmful and toxic waste. Because the most of the solar panels consumed in the west are manufactured in China, the nature and extent of this pollution is hidden from the consumers of solar panels. We get the illusion of 'green, clean energy' on our shores, by exporting environmental ruin to the countries where the panels are manufactured. Polysilicon manufacturing yields the byproduct silicon tetrachloride, a highly dangerous and toxic chemical.
heat
Town
expensive
Pollution
heat pump
A badroom
back door
Assemble Batteries and electric motors are composed of minerals like nickel, copper and aluminum, which are toxic.
hothouse
mirror
Every week
CARBON FOOT PRINT
A’
living room
grey water
marketplace
Car manufacturing and Machinery and equipment
C’
storage
collect heat protect
plaza housing
young couple
a. Bar b. Church c. resturaunt
C
site
4/29
grow up city
countryside
Housing + market retire
A
4/18
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Architecture Design typeA
typeB
typeC E
A
D
B bedroom
bedroom
kitchen living room balcony
living room
living room
privacy hot spring
solar panel kitchen
bathroom
bar
balcony
solar panel
C’
bedroom
privacy hot spring
bedroom
C
bedroom
E’
bedroom
D’ washing space
ground floor
roof plan
kitchen
bathroom ground floor ground floor
second floor
roof plan A’
balcony
second floor
roof plan
B’
1:100
1:100
F
E 1.5m
wood wood hempcrete metal
privacy hot spring
wind
E 1:10
solar panel solar
co2
co2
BB’
EE’
solar panel
co2
hempcrete
co2
4.75m
tile
collect co2
co2
co2
G 1:10
hempcrete
wood electricity line
co2
collect co2
co2
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wood
G
stone
1:10
F
heat and gas
co2
machine
AA’
CC ’
co2 line
DD’
Community Design
collect gray water
type A gray water line public hot spring
collect gray water
collect gray water gray water line
public hot spring public hot spring
type B
hot spring source
type C public hot spring
nuclear family three generation
couple
more close public hot spring more good view
on the flat
on the half hill
more close reservoir
220 m
2
type A
187 m
2
type B
on the top of hill
100 m
2
type C
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End
Eco Town Self-sufficient To be continue
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Farmer-post Station Graduate Design New farmer with orignal traditional circumstances A new space design for old street 2013-14
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Farmer-Post means farmers' transport of crop. It is common for farmer to grow crops in urban areas and deliver these produce to nearby populous areas for selling. This proposal is to recommend "The station" and to create a new space to faciliate the standard operation of Farmer-post.
Farmer-post
Station
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ďźˆDiagram of Operation Mechanism Taipei city
seed skill
Farmer cooperative association
tool cash virtual currency
city Farmer fruits vegetables
Taipei city vegetable box exchange
change fruits by virtual currency virtual currency Farmer cooperative association consumer
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exchange
Suburbs
Suburbs
Farmer’s possible cultivation range
1km 1km 1km
Taipei main hydrology
1km
1km
site 1km
Taipei songshan Airport 1km
site 1km
1km
site
1km
Taipei main roads 1km
Farmer’s possible cultivation range
site
Relationship between traditional market and Taipei mountain range 29
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Modelling
Design 31
Spacs Design
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original space perception
relationship between shops and open space relationship between site and traditional market
relationship between space and the creation of more space through structure and voids
consumer lounge
phase of change
extension of green
space perception through blending of new and old buildings
plazza
relationship between platform and volume
relationship between site and fram
relationship between site and circulation
relationship between site and commercial activites
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wooden component
original building
original building 34
pavement connected to the hillside
second floor platform
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Design by CHOU HUNG-MING